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Acoustics

Acoustic Modeling for Emotion Recognition. K. R. Anne, S. Kuchibhotla, H. D. Vankayalapati. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (66 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15529-6 Buy at Amazon

Battlefield Acoustics. T. Damarla. Springer, 2015. $94.99 (262 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-16035-1 Buy at Amazon

Astronomy and astrophysics

Black Holes: Thermodynamics, Information, and Firewalls. R. B. Mann. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (97 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14495-5 Buy at Amazon

Library and Information Services in Astronomy VII: Open Science at the Frontiers of Librarianship. A. Holl, S. Lesteven, D. Dietrich, A. Gasperini, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2015. $77.00 (347 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-868-8 Buy at Amazon

Physics of Magnetic Flux Tubes. M. Ryutova. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (559 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-45242-4 Buy at Amazon

Shakespeare and Saturn: Accounting for Appearences. P. D. Usher. Peter Lang, 2015. $86.95 (243 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4331-2860-8 Buy at Amazon

Biological and medical physics

VI Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering CLAIB 2014, Paraná, Argentina, 29, 30 & 31 October 2014. A. Braidot, A. Hadad, eds. Springer, 2015. $259.00 paper (1023 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-13116-0 Buy at Amazon

Cancer Nanotheranostics. P. Gopinath et al. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (119 pp.). ISBN 978-981-287-434-4 Buy at Amazon

Computational Hemodynamics—Theory, Modelling and Applications. J. Tu, K. Inthavong, K. K. L. Wong. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (351 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9593-7 Buy at Amazon

Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy: Clinical Evidence and Techniques. Y. Nishimura, R. Komaki, eds. Springer, 2015. $249.00 (473 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55485-1 Buy at Amazon

New Techniques in Systems Neuroscience. A. D. Douglass, ed. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (301 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-12912-9 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Adaptivity in Biology: From Genetics to Cognition. M. Asano et al. Springer, 2015. $159.00 (173 pp.). ISBN 978-94-017-9818-1 Buy at Amazon

Scientific Basis of the Royal College of Radiologists Fellowship: Illustrated Questions and Answers. M. Sperrin, J. Winder. IOP, 2014. $190.00 (250 pp.). ISBN 978-0-7503-1059-8 Buy at Amazon

Chemical physics

Advanced Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting Applications. W. Becker, ed. Springer, 2015. $229.00 (624 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14928-8 Buy at Amazon

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. Vol. 66. M. A. Johnson, T. J. Martínez, J. T. Groves, eds. Annual Reviews, 2015. $99.00 (754 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8243-1066-0 Buy at Amazon

Characterization of Zeolite-Based Coatings for Adsorption Heat Pumps. A. Freni et al. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (96 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-09326-0 Buy at Amazon

Colloid Process Engineering. M. Kind, W. Peukert, H. Rehage, H. P. Schuchmann, eds. Springer, 2015. $119.00 (398 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15128-1 Buy at Amazon

Lanthanide Single Molecule Magnets. J. Tang, P. Zhang. Springer, 2015. $99.00 (211 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-46998-9 Buy at Amazon

Spectra and Dynamics of Small Molecules: Alexander von Humboldt Lectures. R. W. Field. Springer, 2015. $49.99 paper (153 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15957-7 Buy at Amazon

Supramolecular Polymer Networks and Gels. S. Seiffert, ed. Springer, 2015. $259.00 (288 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-15403-9 Buy at Amazon

Computers and computational physics

High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ’14. W. E. Nagel. D. H. Kröner, M. M. Resch, eds. Springer, 2015. $189.00 (691 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-10809-4 Buy at Amazon

Condensed-matter physics

Superconductivity: Basics and Applications to Magnets. R. G. Sharma. Springer, 2015. $179.00 (414 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-13712-4 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear science and chaos

An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling: Modeling Natural, Social, and Engineered Complex Systems with NetLogo. U. Wilensky, W. Rand. MIT Press, 2015. $65.00 paper (482 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-73189-8 Buy at Amazon

Model Emergent Dynamics in Complex Systems. A. J. Roberts. SIAM, 2015. $114.00 paper (748 pp.). ISBN 978-1-61197-355-6 Buy at Amazon

Patterns in Excitable Media: Genesis, Dynamics, and Control. S. Sinha, S. Sridhar. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015. $89.95 (308 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4665-5283-8 Buy at Amazon

Predicting Real World Behaviors from Virtual World Data. M. A. Ahmad, C. Shen, J. Srivastava, N. Contractor, eds. Springer, 2014. $89.99 (118 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07141-1 Buy at Amazon

Nuclear physics

Nuclear Structure with Coherent States. A. A. Raduta. Springer, 2015. $149.00 (521 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14641-6 Buy at Amazon

Supercritical-Pressure Light Water Cooled Reactors. Y. Oka, H. Mori, eds. Springer, 2014. $129.00 (380 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55024-2 Buy at Amazon

Optics and photonics

An Introduction to Practical Laboratory Optics. J. F. James. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $34.99 paper (187 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-68793-6 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear Optics and Photonics. G. S. He. Oxford U. Press, 2014. $89.95 (688 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-870276-4 Buy at Amazon

Relativistic Electron Mirrors: From High Intensity Laser–Nanofoil Interactions. D. Kiefer. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (117 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07751-2 Buy at Amazon

Particle physics

Gauge/String Duality, Hot QCD and Heavy Ion Collisions. J. Casalderrey-Solana et al. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $90.00 (460 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-02246-1 Buy at Amazon

Lectures on Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology. C. Merino, ed. Springer, 2015. $169.00 (480 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-12237-3 Buy at Amazon

Particle Accelerators: From Big Bang Physics to Hadron Therapy. U. Amaldi. Springer, 2015. $34.99 paper (284 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-08869-3 Buy at Amazon

Search for the Higgs Boson in the Vector Boson Fusion Channel at the ATLAS Detector. E. Ouellette. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (106 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-13598-4 Buy at Amazon

Supersymmetry After the Higgs Discovery. I. Antoniadis, D. Ghilencea, eds. Springer, 2014. $109.00 (175 pp.). ISBN 978-3-662-44171-8 Buy at Amazon

Plasmas and fusion

Solution Precursor Plasma Spray System. N. Sanpo. Springer, 2014. $54.99 (100 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-07024-7 Buy at Amazon

Popularizations

Holy Sci-Fi! Where Science Fiction and Religion Intersect. P. J. Nahin. Springer, 2014. $19.99 paper (224 pp.). ISBN 978-1-4939-0617-8 Buy at Amazon

Imminent Science: What Remains to Be Discovered. G. F. Bignami. Springer, 2014. $29.99 paper (102 pp.). ISBN 978-88-470-5351-9 Buy at Amazon

Mathematics Without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation. M. Harris. Princeton U. Press, 2015. $29.95 (438 pp.). ISBN 978-0-691-15423-7 Buy at Amazon

Professor Stewart’s Incredible Numbers. I. Stewart. Basic Books, 2015. $16.99 paper (341 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-04272-2 Buy at Amazon

The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World. T. Cox. W. W. Norton, 2014. $16.95 paper (331 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-35058-6 Buy at Amazon

The Story of Collapsing Stars: Black Holes, Naked Singularities, and the Cosmic Play of Quantum Gravity. P. S. Joshi. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $49.95 (225 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-968676-6 Buy at Amazon

Quantum physics

Multi-Step Multi-Input One-Way Quantum Information Processing with Spatial and Temporal Modes of Light. R. Ukai. Springer, 2015. $129.00 (349 pp.). ISBN 978-4-431-55018-1 Buy at Amazon

Non-perturbative Description of Quantum Systems. I. Feranchuk, A. Ivanov, V.-H. Le, A. Ulyanenkov. Springer, 2015. $89.99 paper (362 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-13005-7 Buy at Amazon

Testing Quantum Contextuality: The Problem of Compatibility. J. Szangolies. Springer Spektrum, 2015. $89.99 paper (108 pp.). ISBN 978-3-658-09199-6 Buy at Amazon

Space and planetary science

Beyond: Our Future in Space. C. Impey. W. W. Norton, 2015. $27.95 (321 pp.). ISBN 978-0-393-23930-0 Buy at Amazon

Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration. C. A. Piantadosi. Columbia U. Press, 2015. $25.00 paper (279 pp.). ISBN 978-0-231-16243-2 Buy at Amazon

The Scientific Exploration of Venus. F. W. Taylor. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $48.00 (295 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-02348-2 Buy at Amazon

Solar Polarization 7. K. N. Nagendra, J. O. Stenflo, Z. Q. Qu, M. Sampoorna, eds. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2014. $77.00 (342 pp.). ISBN 978-1-58381-862-6 Buy at Amazon

Texts and education

Ideal MHD. J. P. Freidberg. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $85.00 (722 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-00625-6 Buy at Amazon

An Introduction to Computational Stochastic PDEs. G. J. Lord, C. E. Powell, T. Shardlow. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $60.00 paper (503 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-72852-2 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to General Relativity, Black Holes and Cosmology. Y. Choquet-Bruhat. Oxford U. Press, 2015. $99.95 (279 pp.). ISBN 978-0-19-966645-4 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Solid State Physics and Crystalline Nanostructures. G. Iadonisi, G. Cantele, M. L. Chiofalo. Springer, 2014. $119.00 (685 pp.). ISBN 978-88-470-2804-3 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to the Physics of Matter: Basic Atomic, Molecular, and Solid-State Physics. N. Manini. Springer, 2014. $59.99 paper (276 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14381-1 Buy at Amazon

Quantum Measurement Theory and Its Applications. K. Jacobs. Cambridge U. Press, 2014. $80.00 (544 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-02548-6 Buy at Amazon

Theory and mathematical methods

Advanced Methods in the Fractional Calculus of Variations. A. B. Malinowska, T. Odzijewicz, D. F. M. Torres. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (135 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14755-0 Buy at Amazon

Clifford Algebras and Lie Theory. E. Meinrenken. Springer, 2014. $69.99 paper (321 pp.). ISBN 978-3-642-54466-8 Buy at Amazon

Electricity and Magnetism for Mathematicians: A Guided Path from Maxwell’s Equations to Yang-Mills. T. A. Garrity. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $39.99 paper (282 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-43516-2 Buy at Amazon

Global Existence and Uniqueness of Nonlinear Evolutionary Fluid Equations. Y. Qin, X. Liu, T. Wang. Birkhäuser, 2015. $109.00 paper (211 pp.). ISBN 978-3-0348-0593-3 Buy at Amazon

Introduction to Global Variational Geometry. D. Krupka. Atlantis Press, 2015. $109.00 (354 pp.). ISBN 978-94-6239-072-0 Buy at Amazon

Mathematical Models of Viscous Friction. P. Buttà, G. Cavallaro, C. Marchioro. Springer, 2015. $49.99 paper (134 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14758-1 Buy at Amazon

Multiple Time Scale Dynamics. C. Kuehn. Springer, 2015. $99.00 (814 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-12315-8 Buy at Amazon

Nonlinear Mathematical Physics and Natural Hazards. B. Aneva, M. Kouteva-Guentcheva, eds. Springer, 2015. $199.00 (141 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14327-9 Buy at Amazon

The Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation: Singular Solutions and Optical Collapse. G. Fibich. Springer, 2015. $99.00 (862 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-12747-7 Buy at Amazon

Preconditioning and the Conjugate Gradient Method in the Context of Solving PDEs. J. Málek, Z. Strakoš. SIAM, 2015. $39.00 paper (104 pp.). ISBN 978-1-61197-383-9 Buy at Amazon

Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics. 2nd ed. G. J. Sussman, J. Wisdom. MIT Press, 2014. $85.00 (554 pp.). ISBN 978-0-262-02896-7 Buy at Amazon

Tensor Categories and Endomorphisms of von Neumann Algebras: With Applications to Quantum Field Theory. M. Bischoff, Y. Kawahigashi, R. Longo, K.-H. Rehren. Springer, 2015. $54.99 paper (94 pp.). ISBN 978-3-319-14300-2 Buy at Amazon

Theory of Inelastic Scattering and Absorption of X-Rays. M. van Veenendaal. Cambridge U. Press, 2015. $95.00 (237 pp.). ISBN 978-1-107-03355-9 Buy at Amazon

Unified Transform for Boundary Value Problems: Applications and Advances. A. S. Fokas, B. Pelloni, eds. SIAM, 2015. $94.00 paper (293 pp.). ISBN 978-1-61197-381-5 Buy at Amazon